IRIS

Investment Research Operating System

by Reckoning Machines


Work the way you think.

IRIS repository index with repository search and investment research workspaces

IRIS is where institutional investment research lives.

Models, Methods, evidence, reports, decisions, and memory remain connected in one repository.

Figure 1 The Research Velocity Flywheel The operating model behind IRIS.

Engineering Diagram IRIS Research System
Context to Orientation to Evidence to Continuity to Better Context flywheel

IRIS reduces the time between a question and a decision. Each research cycle preserves the context, evidence, and judgment required for the next one.

Search

Start with the model.

Search is the front door. Open a company, model, question, or research surface without managing files.

IRIS repository search surface for opening models and research surfaces
Search opens the current model and the research surfaces around it.
Analyze

Work in the model.

Keep the familiar grid and familiar formulas, but attach assumptions, outputs, evidence, formulas, and reasoning to the model itself.

The spreadsheet stays familiar. The context becomes durable.

IRIS model screen with spreadsheet and Research Rail panel
Analyze is where model work, assumptions, outputs, and evidence stay in one surface.

METHOD

Teach IRIS how your team works.

=AI("forecast loan growth")

One formula. One Method. Preserved forever.

Methods are reusable analytical procedures.

They preserve not only what your analysts concluded, but how they reached the conclusion.

Every execution strengthens institutional memory.

Research Rail

Ask the model.

Research Rail is the analyst interface to the repository.

  • Why?
  • What changed?
  • What stands out?
  • Have we believed this before?
  • Remember this.
  • What if margin were 5%?
  • Write the report.

Ask questions. Run research. Test scenarios. Build memory.

Meeting Mode puts IRIS on your phone. You don't need Excel to understand a model. You need the repository.

IRIS Research Rail model value lookup with governed action evidence
Analyst language covers asking, remembering, comparing, testing, and writing from the model.
Report

Turn work into communication.

Reports are emitted from model work. The explanation stays attached to the assumptions, outputs, evidence, and changes that produced it.

IRIS Report surface inside model context
Report turns the model state into communication without detaching it from its evidence.
Timeline

Preserve what changed.

The timeline keeps institutional memory: what changed, when it changed, and why it mattered. Every decision becomes part of the model's history.

IRIS Timeline surface showing model history
Timeline records versions, reports, and memory as the model evolves.
Serious teams

Serious research teams move faster when the model remembers.

Preserve reasoning. Not files.
Test ideas. Not spreadsheet copies.
Explain changes. Not screenshots.
Build memory. Not archaeology.

One repository.

One timeline.

One Research Rail.

One model.

Everything stays connected.